My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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